Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Damn, that's interesting!@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agoTo circumvent local government's restriction on sharp price drop, Chinese real estates developers literally handed out gold ingots to home buyers.lemmy.nzimagemessage-square31fedilinkarrow-up1190arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1187arrow-down1imageTo circumvent local government's restriction on sharp price drop, Chinese real estates developers literally handed out gold ingots to home buyers.lemmy.nzLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Damn, that's interesting!@lemmy.mlEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square31fedilinkfile-text
Context : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/12/gold-bars-used-to-lure-chinese-homebuyers-amid-market-slowdown
minus-squareargv_minus_one@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoHow so? This looks like unscrupulous businesses finding loopholes in the regulations and the government being slow to close them. Same thing happens in the west.
How so? This looks like unscrupulous businesses finding loopholes in the regulations and the government being slow to close them. Same thing happens in the west.